Keen to expand educational horizons, my aim in working with students is to help them explore through learning, as well as reach their academic goals. A native of Pennsylvania, I graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Penn State with a B.S. in French. While there, I received scholarships to study business and French at the Schreyer Honors College. I also received minors in Business, Dance, and International Studies. Globally-minded and believing one of the best ways to learn is through experience, I have lived and worked throughout the world. In 2003, I was one of only two PSU students to participate in a direct exchange to Paris, where I lived for a year with a French host family, took business courses in French, and interned at an event planning company, which allowed me plan a full event in Barcelona. From 2005-2006, I taught high school English as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. I have also lived in Salvador (Brazil), DC, New York City, and Austin. With experience tutoring French at the university level, and having worked with younger children, and as a Fulbright ETA, in addition to taking AP French, AP U.S. History, AP European History, and AP Calculus, joining the Varsity Tutors team is a natural fit. Curious to learn anything new, I have a wide variety of interests including: ballet, line dancing, overseas travel, nature walks, visiting historical sites, horse riding, and improv comedy. I play the Chinese harp and am currently on a country music kick, having just moved from Texas. I'll try anything at least once!

Ballet, line dancing, overseas travel, nature walks, visiting historical sites, horse riding, Chinese harp